toppenheimer@foxrothschild.comBiography
Biography
Managing Partner of the firm's Miami office, Thomas is a trusted legal advisor to clients around the world, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, financial institutions, private funds, hedge funds, emerging companies, developers, sponsors, and small to mid-size private companies.
Skilled with general corporate law and international business transactions, Thomas is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in International Law.
Fluent in Spanish, Thomas often assists clients with international business transactions involving the United States and Latin America. He is experienced with private real estate and debt funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, in-bound structuring of foreign investments, and commercial contracts.
Thomas also handles asset-based and real estate financing matters for institutional and private lenders, including financial institutions, hedge funds, private debt funds, and foreign investors and sponsors. He also handles transactional real estate matters, including the acquisition, financing and leasing of multi-family, mixed-use, condominium, retail and office properties.
Thomas also has experience representing clients in partnership and shareholder disputes, assisting with litigation strategy and providing litigation support. Foreign sponsors, foreign family offices and foreign investors often seek out his general counsel services.
Managing Partner of the firm's Miami office, Thomas is a trusted legal advisor to clients around the world, including high-net-worth individuals, family offices, financial institutions, private funds, hedge funds, emerging companies, developers, sponsors, and small to mid-size private companies.
Skilled with general corporate law and international business transactions, Thomas is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in International Law.
Fluent in Spanish, Thomas often assists clients with international business transactions involving the United States and Latin America. He is experienced with private real estate and debt funds, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, in-bound structuring of foreign investments, and commercial contracts.
Thomas also handles asset-based and real estate financing matters for institutional and private lenders, including financial institutions, hedge funds, private debt funds, and foreign investors and sponsors. He also handles transactional real estate matters, including the acquisition, financing and leasing of multi-family, mixed-use, condominium, retail and office properties.
Thomas also has experience representing clients in partnership and shareholder disputes, assisting with litigation strategy and providing litigation support. Foreign sponsors, foreign family offices and foreign investors often seek out his general counsel services.
Representative Matters
- Represented an international energy group in the acquisition of one of Ecuador's largest independent oil operators in a transaction valued at more than $80 million, marking the first private leveraged buyout of an oil and gas company in Ecuador.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a nearly 500-unit luxury high-rise apartment community in South Florida in a transaction valued at more than $225 million.
- Represented the sponsor of a $150 million real estate investment fund focused on value-add and core-plus shopping center investments throughout the United States.
- Represented a developer in securing a $140 million construction loan for a major mixed-use development in Miami.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a nearly 500-unit, luxury, high-rise apartment complex in South Florida to offshore funds. The property sold for more than $225 million.
- Represented foreign sponsor of a $150 million real estate fund focused on value-add and core-plus multi-tenant shopping centers throughout the United States.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a South Florida apartment complex that included more than 300 units on roughly 10 acres for a purchase price of more than $90 million.
- Represent a publicly traded bank in various asset-based, construction, mortgage (owner and tenant occupied), and mezzanine financings having a combined principal amount of over $100 million.
- Represented an international energy group in the acquisition of one of Ecuador's largest independent oil operators in a transaction valued at more than $80 million, marking the first private leveraged buyout of an oil and gas company in Ecuador.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a nearly 500-unit luxury high-rise apartment community in South Florida in a transaction valued at more than $225 million.
- Represented the sponsor of a $150 million real estate investment fund focused on value-add and core-plus shopping center investments throughout the United States.
- Represented a developer in securing a $140 million construction loan for a major mixed-use development in Miami.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a nearly 500-unit, luxury, high-rise apartment complex in South Florida to offshore funds. The property sold for more than $225 million.
- Represented foreign sponsor of a $150 million real estate fund focused on value-add and core-plus multi-tenant shopping centers throughout the United States.
- Represented a developer in the sale of a South Florida apartment complex that included more than 300 units on roughly 10 acres for a purchase price of more than $90 million.
- Represent a publicly traded bank in various asset-based, construction, mortgage (owner and tenant occupied), and mezzanine financings having a combined principal amount of over $100 million.
Bar Admissions
- Florida
- New York
- District of Columbia
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
Education
- American University, Washington College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2005)
- Emory University (B.A., 2002)
Memberships
- Florida Bar Association (Board Certified in International Law)
- Dade County Bar Association
- Coral Gables Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- International Law Section
- United Way of Miami-Dade Young Leaders
Languages
- Spanish
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the "Best Lawyers in America" list for Real Estate Law (2024-2027) and International Mergers & Acquisitions (2027) in Miami, FL by Best Lawyers
- Named a “Top Up and Comer” by South Florida Legal Guide (2020)
- Named an attorney "On the Rise" by the Daily Business Review (2019)
